Re: Why are RegExps never working?

[Sven Bretfeld <sven.bretfeld@gmx.ch>]

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Hi Peter

You're my savior again. Thanks.

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:

> You mean: what *are* ?

I think it's still only one mistake.

> Everything between square brackets, i.e. in [], are alternatives, no |
> is needed.

> What you are trying to search and destroy, ahhem, replace are not line
> endings but line feeds inside the from expression. These are put  into
> the expression as C-q C-j. 

This works perfectly (of course). I will search in the info for the
difference between a line feed and an end of line, which is not clear
to me.

> The expression between [] won't look  like
> such, but I can give you some guarantee: it works! Definitely.
>
> And please read again what a "group" in regular expressions is! The ``
> [ \|$]´´ and the ``[0-9]´´ are bracket expressions, a faulty (for your
> purpose) and a working one. If you want to re-use parts of the  search
> expression you can use:
>
> 	\(pp\.\)[ ^J]\([0-9]\)  ->  \1~\2
>
> Line feed or SPC are converted to ~.

Sorry, wrong terminology. Yes, I'm usually using "groups" like that to
search and replace regexps.

Thank you very much

Sven

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